Short One For The Road Poems

If there is anything worse than the banality of evil, it is the banality of maturity....

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my mind's eye torment
inconceivable losses
one drink too many


Senryu on Mind Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Jenish Somadas...

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lorna applebee is the name

her tale recurs always same

a phlebotomist and i

after twelve mai tai

elope a real bloody shame.
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One For The Road

In the circus I mastered some arts.
Butt the unicycle - sad farce
its seat tightly wedged
when I hit a low hedge
needed help to pull it from me arse.


John G. Lawless
©2/5/2018...

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The only one along this road… 
riding shotgun through my mind
Tomorrow waits for someone else,
lost wanderings consigned
Forgetting what the moment augurs,
living in the past
Confirming what I’m most afraid of
—behind whoever’s last

(The New Room: January, 2022)...

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Red,
The summer sky is red,
scarlet ,
furious as my fathers face 
after another one for the road 

Blue,
the sea is blue,
shiny, shimmering and cold, 
my mother,  bejewelled, always shimmered 
but to me she was cold

Black,
The night is black, 
unwelcoming, 
all consuming 
turn that light out and stop your crying 
black...

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Single shots
Leave the Double shots alone
The Double shots don't have any ice to loan
And the Single shots rock to their own songs

Although he's a Single shot
He'll get a Double shot
Every now and then

One for the road and the other
For a friend

And although she's a Double shot
Sometimes she just can't comprehend

That it's a sin 
For the Double and Single shots
To blend...

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Through the bottom of a glass I see
the world looking so Rosie
just one for the road I say 
just one more whiskey 

her baby gives her a smile
how lucky  is she to be alive
one more cuddle she says
then off to  see her little  sister

Where's the car lock I cant see
the radio's singing to me
I hit the road full speed ahead
I didn't see her, and now she's dead ! 

comp entry 10/08/2016...

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The tapping keys are calling
but in the background buildings
loom - duty's calling
I repose, think

Two for the show and one for the road.

You must go it alone, you must!
You know other things too -
like promises mingling with dust,
like August without summer, that

Requiem for what's dead is only
procrastination -
when life's arms of sunshine
fill you with dread.

Two for the show -
one for the road....

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Life is not a game
Not an object to claim
Its a chance, a choice, a path
For us to unfold
And from it wrath
Like the rainbow after a storm
Come treasures untold

So what comes next?
What do I look for?
Cause there is no written text
To lead me safely
Forever more
Lost yet somehow found
I walk blinded, yet not bound
To one particular ornate road
Cause whats here is now
Today is all thats told...

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Go quickly now
Purge why and how


Dance in that dream
Ooze in lost streams


Go fade away
Thus ends last day


Watch old times die
Beyond those highs


Go when you can
Exit old span


Tact follows act
Don't just react


Go with a smile
Know ends that style


One for the road
Unleash old loads


Go with the wind
Unknown, unseen




Leon Enriquez
17 January 2017
Singapore...

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Too young for bars, but thirsty.
  Uncle Reggie owned a beer joint so
  we went in and had beers carte blanche.
  He was upstairs dying of cancer.

  We went up for an impromptu visit. 
  He and his woman in a small room.
  He was in bed weak with sickness.
  We made small talk then escaped.  

  We went downstairs; one for the road.
  Everything I drank then tasted bitter.
  One day we'll all be in that bed upstairs.
  May God rest all of our souls.  Amen...

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One for the road, was what he said,
just one hour later, he was dead.
A semi trailer, parked on the  side,
decapitated, by the tray of the truck, was how he died.
Alcohol, is an insidious thing,
untold misery, is what it can bring.
Broken homes, and battered wives,
causing the untimely ending, of countless lives.
The cost to society is untold,
affecting every one, young, and old.
So just remember, when you raise that glass,
if you drink to much, a tragedy may come to pa...

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